My name is John Clapp. I have created this blog to share my artwork and thoughts about them. How I created them, why I created them and so on. Please check back often to see new ones. Visit www.jclappart.com
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About the drawing: the entire image is drawn. The background, paper and tape were all drawn using graphite, charcoal, pastel and colored pencil.

What is Trompe l'Oeil?Trompe l'Oeil is a French term the means "to deceive the eye". It is an art teqnique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

In this piece, the paper man is holding a paper flower that seems to be coming off of the surface, and as you can see he's already plucked one petal to try to answer the question.